Industrial Design in Vietnam

1. Definition Industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements. Products herein are understood to mean articles, tools, equipments, or parts used for assembling such products, manufactured by industrial or handicraft methods, with a structure and clear function,...

SBLAW is honored to act as the intellectual property representative for VITACO Import-Export Co., Ltd., assisting in the successful registration and protection of the industrial design for its fish sauce product label. Filed under application No. 3-2023-02525 with the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam on October 26, 2023, the design...

Documents identifying an industrial design registered for protection in an industrial design registration application include a description and a set of photos or drawings of such industrial design[...]

In order to reach the Industrial design registration certificate, the applicants have to fulfill the whole examination procedure consists of following steps[...]

In order to register your industrial design in Vietnam, We would like the Power of Attorney (POA) from your firm[...]

SBLaw would like to provide the guideline for industrial design in Vietnam as follows:

Where an applicant for registration of an industrial design knows that such industrial design is being used by another person without prior use right for commercial purposes[...]

If you have a industrial design and would like to register it, SBLaw would like to inform you some information about protecting your industrial design in Vietnam for your reference:

1. novel industrial design - An industrial design shall be deemed to be new if it significantly differs from other industrial designs which have been publicly disclosed by use or by means of written descriptions or in any other form either inside or outside Vietnam prior to the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the application for registration of the industrial design.

Before the NOIP issues a notice of its refusal to grant a protection title or a decision on the grant of a protection title[...]

  The fee for filling an industrial design application in Vietnam. In order to file an industrial design application in Vietnam, the applicant has to pay the following fee: 1.1.Fee for filing an application for industrial design application (*) - Additional charge for each additional variation from 2nd one 1.2. Claiming priority right (for each...

The required document for filling industrial design in Vietnam is as follows:

On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest,the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]

The refusal accept the valid application of Vietnam Industrial design registration is realized as follows[...]